Overview
Classrooms and dedicated spaces with Universal Classroom Capture software installed in the podium allow you to record your screen and audio. If you have requested your classes to automatically record (start and stop at the designated times), the tips in this article demonstrate what to do before class, at each class, during class, and after class.
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Recording Sensitive Information
While recording your class lectures, do not check grades, email, or anything confidential which violates FERPA policy. All content is recorded and will be available to students whether scheduled to start automatically or started and stopped manually.
Trim or cut out sensitive information. You can edit your video directly in your browser, view a library of help articles on using the Media Editor in EchoVideo.
Before Class - Add a Presentation to your Scheduled Capture
Faculty can enrich their scheduled classroom recording(s) by uploading a PowerPoint or PDF to match their in-class instruction. This makes the recording more interactive and accessible for students. Presentations can include embedded links, images, and polls. You can control when your students see specific slides.
To add a presentation:
- Open your Canvas course.
- Click the EchoVideo tab in the menu.
- Next to scheduled class, click the pink icon.
- Click “Add Presentation” and choose how you are adding your file.
Need help? View this quick guide: Add an Interactive Presentation
Each Class (things to check)
- Turn on the podium computer and log in.
- Always check that the microphone is at the podium and plugged in, you should see a red light.
Important Note: If there is no microphone (see sample image above) or its not plugged in, audio will not be recorded. Make sure the microphone is facing toward you.
- If you are using the document camera turn it on, and open the desktop shortcut "ImageMate."
- Teach as you normally would all screen content is recorded. Example: PowerPoint, PDF, content on a web page etc. Record whatever you want your students to learn.
- The taskbar should show your recording started as shown in the sample image below.
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Image Mate icon
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The taskbar on a Windows computer.
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Launches the document camera
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Notice the red circle with "REC" (via the Univeral Capture icon)
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During Class (Stop, Pause, or Cancel)
To stop, pause, or cancel the classroom recording double click the EchoVideo icon on the desktop to open the software. You can click Stop, Pause, or Resume as needed. Note: Clicking the X icon cancels your classroom recording/Live Stream recording it will not publish to your course.
View walk through demo and instructions EchoVideo: Control a Universal Capture Recording – Support
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Active Learning and Lecture Tools During Class
Engage students with lecture tools like Q&A, Discussion, Interactive Presentations, Polls, Media slides, Course Analytics and heatmaps (hotspots in your video). The lecture tools can be used during a face to face class with or without Live Stream. An EchoVideo course is a great way for students to interact and engage with your content, see more on student engagement.
After Class (helpful tips)
Be patient. The time that it takes to process to your Library depends on the length of your class recording and where your recording is in the queue with others. When the video is available. you will receive an email notification with the subject title "Your video is online" from donotreply@echo360.org if edits need to be made, you can make them while your video is still processing.
Recommendations
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My class is ending at the normal time.
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At the end of the scheduled recording time be sure to keep the computer on for 3-5 minutes to allow the class recording to upload to the EchoVideo server and process to your course.
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My class is ending class early.
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Be sure to stop the recording by launching the shortcut Universal Classroom Capture on the desktop shortcut. Click the white square to stop the scheduled recording. Then, wait 3-5 minutes and restart the podium computer.
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I am missing my recorded lecture.
Its likely that the class recording didn't have time to upload to the EchoVideo server or class was ended early. |
Call us x4225 or create a support ticket let us know the room and time of your class, so we can locate it. If someone else is using the computer after your class and they sign into the computer your content will be automatically uploaded. |
Posted Media and Student Engagement in your Course
All scheduled classes are published to your EchoVideo course automatically. If you need to trim or cut segments out of your class lecture, use the Media Editor in your Library then share your media in Canvas.
With an EchoVideo course you have lecture tools for both the instructors and students. You have tools to engage them in various ways example(s): Q&A and Discussion, Interactive Presenations, Polling slides, and media slides (share video clips from YouTube, Vimeo, TedTalk, Khan Academy etc.), you can even seen video heatmaps of where content has been watched the most by your students.
Interactive Presentation
Discussion and Q&A in your Class
Analytics in your Course